Thats why you usually use a VM / dedicated computer to download / check pirated software. Its annoying… But less annoying than the shit that ubisoft / EA does…
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thelittleblackbird@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I am not going to be the one to try to stop you but you need to keep in mind that games/sw piracy comes with great risks.
You need to execute anti cheat / drm / copyrighted stuff and this is always a big door open to malware.
Be cautious out there, it is not a pleasant walk
FuyuhikoDate@feddit.org 15 hours ago
dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 9 hours ago
Using a VM to check pirated software, but then running it on your main pc if you don’t notice any malware (I think that’s what you are saying?) is not safe.
Running untrusted software only on a vm or machine that you don’t care about with zero personal info is safest.
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’ve a dual boot with Linux + Windows, my games are isolated on Windows where I’m not logged in anything important. I can just encrypt my Linux partition for a possible vulnerability. But I really think that it’s hard to happen, at least it never happened to me, I’ve pirated before a few times.
Also it’s allowed to pirate on my country, it’s just not allowed to redistribute it, so I don’t need a VPN.
Just download from trusted sources and it’s fine. At this point I’d rather to trust the community providing pirated games than big companies harvesting my data.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
Why not just use Linux to game?
CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
I didn’t have a good experience with Linux, I tried twice, I’ve a laptop wit hybrid GPU AMD + NVIDIA, and NVIDIA is painful on Linux. I loose a lot of performance playing on Linux, tried Fedora last time, OpenSUSE before that.
I might try again eventually.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Try arch
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 16 hours ago
At this point I trust Fitgirl repacks more than some official publishers.